behcets’s disease
Behcets’s disease
Behcets’s disease
Behcets’s disease is also known as behcets’s syndrome. It is an uncommon disease, which causes inflation of blood vessels. Like all other diseases, this also has signs and symptoms. The most common behcets disease symptoms are: mouth ulcers and genital ulcers. The disease can also cause inflation of other body parts like, eyes, joints, skin, veins, arteries, nervous system, heart and digestive system.
Research is still going on, to find the cause of behcets’s disease. It is believed that the immune system has an important part to play in the development bechet’s disease. Behcets’s disease is most common in eastern Asia, Middle East and Mediterranean. Turkey tops the list of people affected with behcets’s disease, where it is estimated that between 110-420 people in every 100,000 will develop it. It is found that the behcets’s disease symptoms are more severe among men rather than women. The disease is a highly unpredictable. The main cause or reason triggering the disease is still not found out. In most severe cases of the disease for inflation of eye can cause permanent blindness, inflation in veins, arteries, nervous system and heart, can even be life threatening. Medical science is yet to find for behcets disease, but it is possible to control the signs and not allow them to turn severe.
Behcets’s disease symptoms
Behcets’s disease symptoms tend to change, depending upon which part is inflated. Symptoms of eye inflation are: painful red eyes, sensitive to light, blurred vision. Symptoms of inflated nervous system may include: headache, uncontrollable twitching or shaking, partial paralysis on one side of the body, changes in behavior – people become either unusually apathetic or unusually uninhibited, and loss of bowel and bladder control. The diagnosis of behcets’s disease can either be done by identifying the pattern of symptoms or by blood tests, urine tests and X-ray. There is no known treatment for behcets’s disease, but several medications can be used to control the symptoms, for example; immunosuppressants: cyclophosphamide, and azathioprine. Monoclonal antibodies: alemtuzumab, infliximab, and interferon alpha.
There are various medical organizations researching on behcets’s disease. The most active association which not only does the research on the disease but also help the people infected by this disease is American behcets disease Association. Their mission is locating people with the disease and providing them with information and support. Providing current and pertinent educational information to the medical community and to aid in diagnosing and treating this disease is the main aim of all organizations. Decreasing isolation and stress from the lives of people with Behcets’s Disease and their family members.
Let us all make sure that we are aware of the signs which may lead to behcets’s disease and will take necessary steps to prevent and control it.
